Monday, September 7, 2015

Bugzilla hack eXposes Firefox 0-day flaw

Mozilla confirmed about Bugzilla breached by an attacker who was able to get access to sensitive information about zero-day flaws in Firefox. According to Mozilla, the intruder was able to breach a high-level user's account who had access to Bugzilla that contains information of non-public zero-day security flaws. Mozilla said attacker took control of the account since September 2013 and accessed approximately 185 vulnerabilities that were non-public, where 53 vulnerabilities considered CRITICAL flaws. However, company claims 43 of the severe flaws had already been patched, but 10 unpatched security flaws are still in the hands of intruder which pose a huge security risk for Firefox users. <more>